Remember When......
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I remember these reading machines in elementary school that would only show one line of a story at a time. It would be projected to the front of the classroom on a screen. You would read the entire story that way one line at a time. After the story was over you would be tested! The machine would click away on the lines of the story quicker and quicker. Talk about pressure, frustration and the lack of wanting to read?!? I hated that **** machine and to this day I am not a big reader! 
I had to pay for that class it wasn't in school. If I don't do that my mind wanders and I remember nothing. But by concentrating and scanning that way I actually accomplish some pages and retain it. I conquer mass quantites of news and investment reports and Bible research every day. lol
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I remember waiting for the Sears, JC Pennys and Montgomery Ward catalogs to arrive so I could start building my Christmas list, sleeping out for concert tickets, Walkmen, boom boxes, the (smoking) pit (outside the school gym, ironic), New Coke, Meister Brau, electric socks & blankets, the antenna at my grandmother's house that you had to rotate with a dial to tune in channels (and you'd scribble in the best spots around the dial), b&w tvs, the civil war swords and the tin foil ball (collected for WW2) at my grandmother's house, my uncle's Harley Davidson mini-bike, seeing Star Wars in the theater 7 times because you might not ever see it again, lots of plaid clothing (despite my best efforts to block that out), playing outside almost every day until dark...
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Remember when there was no cable? ABC, CBS, NBC. ABC was 7, CBS was 4 and NBC was 9. Never used the other nine channels. I used to ask my mom why they gave us twelve channels if we only ever watched three of them. No remote, either.
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My dad owned a radio shack and they rented them at the store.
They had a giant protective case and you inserted it and it pulled the disk out into the player. They didn't last very long.
Just like Betamax and dvd-hd's we chose the wrong format at the time.
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In his mind candy cigarettes were a gateway drug if you will.
Of course when I turned 16 I started smoking anyway.
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When cars didn't have seat belts. Or if they did, nobody used them.
When music was good...hell yeah about camping out for concert tickets. Now people wait on lines for F'n iphones.
When I had to beep the local pot dealer at a pay phone. At least it was next to the record store.
When music was good...hell yeah about camping out for concert tickets. Now people wait on lines for F'n iphones.
When I had to beep the local pot dealer at a pay phone. At least it was next to the record store.
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Remember when Krystal and Hardees had fried chicken? Like a separate case or counter that sold boxes of fried chicken like KFC? I guess this will pretty much only apply to Southerners.
there's only two within a 50mile radius of my house I know of that are open
